Calendar



J. E. MELTON.

CALENDAR.

APPLlCATlON FILED JAN. 19, 1918.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

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JESSE E. MELTON, 0F ALMONT, NORTH DAKOTA.

CALENDAR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Jesse B. MELTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Almont, in the county of Morton and State of North Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in calendars, and it consists in the constructions, and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a calendar having a removable calendar pad, each page of the pad'having ruled and numbered spaces on the back for written memoranda.

Another object of the invention is to provide a calendar as described, having a removable calendar pad with combined rings for holding the pages together and a brace formed with the rings to stiffen the otherwise fiexible pad.

Another object of the invention is to provide a calendar as described, including a pocket for holding the removable calendar pad, the edges of the pocket being reinforced to prevent tearing when the calendar is used as a wall pocket for temporarily preserving small articles and various data.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a calendar including the removable pad constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail View showing the manner of forming the calendar pocket.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a back 1 upon which a mask 2 is pasted and additionally secured by the eyelet 3 at the top, by means of which the calendar may be hung upon the wall. The mask 2 has an. opening 4 through which the picture 5 is visible. The picture 5 is pasted on the back 1 and may be that of a local scene or consists of any appropriate subject.

A slit 6 is cut into the mask 2 below the opening 4, and the ends of the slit 6 are prevented from tearing when the calendar is employed in a manner to be explained, by reinforcing pieces 7 which are glued in place in the formation of the calendar. These reinforcing pieces 7 may be of any Specification of Letters Patent.

' pad 14 together.

Patented Dec. 28, .1920.

Application filed January 19, 1918. Serial No. 212,617.

mask 2 at 10. The short end 11 is cut out,

as at 12, in Fig. 3, to leave a tongue '13 insertible through the I slit 6 and then pasted to the front of the mask 2. The tongue 13 makes a rounded edge for the slit 6 and avoids the sharp edge at the entrance to the pocket 8.

Insertible and removable into and from the pocket 8, is a calendar pad 14 which consists of the usual pages bearing thedesignations of the months and days of the year. The front of the calendar pad .14 has a cover piece, illustrated in Fi 1, which is folded back when it is desired to expose the first month and this cover, together with a suitable number of the pages, is inserted into the pocket 8 while the remaining pages simply hang in position on the front of the calendar as plainly illustrated in Fig. 2. The back of each of the pages of the calendar pad, is ruled and numbered so that data of various kinds may be written on the back of the page. The calendar pad is made removable for this purpose, and is adapted to be taken out of the pocket 8 in order that the data or memoranda may be more conveniently written thereon.

Rings 15 hold the pages of the calendar The rings 15 are made preferably as integral parts of a bar or brace 16 spanning the rings as illustrated in Fig. 1, and providing a brace imparting rigidity to the calendar pad 14 when the same is handled. The calendar pad is of course flexible and it can readily be understood that in handling the pad were it not for the bar 16, the pad would collapse in the hand and become inconvenient to handle. By providing the rings 15 with the bar 16 extending across the upper edge of the pad, the pad is made rigid or substantially so, and can be handled very much more easily than would be the case otherwise.

WVhile the construction of the calendar is thought to be fully understood from the foregoing, a resum of the advantages is thought desirable. It is a common experience with those who have frequent access to calendars, that the calendar is taken from the Wall and to a table or stand 'u here memoranda may he perused or Written more readily around a space either in the current month or some future montln [This practice prevails more especially in the home and has led to the making and marketing 01 calendar devices known desk pads which are constructed especially with a View of leaving enough space for Written m nioranda over each day of the month. Returning again to the first instance, the ordinary Wall calendars have insuificient space around the printed date to hold written inemoranda of any length.

The calendar described in the foregoing embodies all of the features and advantages of the so-called desk pa in that, there is sufiicient space on the back oi"- each page to hold a considerable amount of written matter. The calendar also has the advan tage that the part which is to contain the Written matter, may be transported to a convenient place, thus avoiding the necessity of standing at the place Where the calendar is hung. The calendar pad is simply taken out of the pocket 8, the Written ins-nioranda is made on the back of the desired one of the pages bearing the months desig nation and in the correspondingly nurnbored space, and then returned to the pocket 8. The removable pad also provides a condensed form for filing and preservation of niemoranda.

While the construction and arrangement of the calendar as illustrated in the accompanying drawings is that of a generally preferred form, obvious modifications and changes may be made Without departing ing niontl'is des t spaces for Written nieinoranda on the back, the other pages constituting the pad supporting means; and combined means for holding the pages together and stiffening the pad calendar pad consisting of a plurality of loose pages having months desigignations printed on the front a d divided spaces printed on the back for Written memoranda, and combi ed means for holding the loose pages together 2 -d stitiening ti. o pad those pages bearing expired months designations being turned back to provide a pad mounting, while the other pages hang in front; said means comprising a. oar with rings formed on the ends.

2). A calendar pad, consisting out a plu rality of pages, loosely combined on own mon stiffening means, the pages which are turned back With the expiring mouths constituting the means Which supports the pad on a suitable mounting.

eh A calendar pad, consisting a plurality o pages, With sti l'ening means on which they are loosely mounted ior turning back the turned back pages coi'istituting the supporting means of the pad when inserted in a suitable support, the pad being removable therefrom to permit turning back the JESSE E. MELTON. 

